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Post-laminectomy long-term survival of a patient with spinal cord compression secondary to metastatic prostate cancer

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Spinal cord compression is a skeletal-related event in advanced malignancies and is associated with serious morbidity and poor prognosis. Despite the palliative nature of laminectomy treatment, it is important to prevent neurological deficits and relieve pain as a means to improve quality of life. Here we report on a prostate cancer patient with spinal cord compression who became ambulant from paraparesis after he underwent a decompression laminectomy; he survived for 9.5 years with good quality of life.

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  1. Department of Urology, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan

    Seiichi Saito, Kiyohide Sakai, Yutaka Chiba, Hideo Saito & Yoichi Arai

  2. Department of Urology, Yamagata Prefecture Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

    Senji Hoshi

  3. Department of Orthopedics, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan

    Masahito Hatori

  4. Department of Pathology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan

    Mareyuki Endoh

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Saito, S., Hoshi, S., Sakai, K. et al. Post-laminectomy long-term survival of a patient with spinal cord compression secondary to metastatic prostate cancer. Int J Clin Oncol 9, 520–522 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10147-004-0431-3

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